Mobile Apps for iOS, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Mobile Put the Power of Enterprise Applications in Employees' Hands

Last Month the Sybase SAP Nordic Roadshow again hit 4 countries in 4 days... Stockholm Sweden, Helsinki Finland, Oslo Norway and Copenhagen Denmark. A serious amount of traveling, delivering a serious amount of content, within the 3 tracks Manage, Analyze and Mobilize. A number of the ...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. There are a lot of changes at TechWave this year, largely due to the somewhat delayed effects of SAP’s acquisition of Sybase. But in many ways, it’s almost a return to the old way of doing them. This will be the first year that TechW...

I wanted to use my article to tell you about some of the best productivity apps I have come across in the last year, which have really transformed how I work. If you are like me and constantly on the move and your Converged Mobile Device (SmartPhone and/or Tablet) has become your virtu...

We have a new YouTube Channel created exclusively for SUP Developer Content. As an initial offering, I have created an 8-part series on getting started with SUP and some features of SUP 2.0. These are meant to complement the excellent documentation created for SUP 2.0. To increase the...

Sybase, Inc., an SAP company, has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management (MDM) Software report, authored by Phillip Redman, John Girard and Leif-Olof Wallin (April 2011) The Gartner report points out that,”by 3Q10, t...

Last week I started a series of eight articles following my experience with the Sybase UnWired Platform (SUP) and specifically developing for iOS. SUP is a Mobile Enterprise Application platform (MEAP) which eases the complexity for deploying multiple applications to multiple platforms...

Conditions are ripe for the mobile economy to play a bigger role than ever this holiday season, according to a national survey conducted by Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services. The survey of 1,000 consumers found...

Last week was the Sybase Mobile Enterprise event in Amsterdam, just like previous years it drew a good number of attendees. Registrations numbered over 280 of Europe's Mobility Visionaries, divided by the following countries...Netherlands 37%, Germany 20%, UK 16%, Denmark 7%, Belgium 6...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and ...

TechWave 2010 is now in the bag, quite literally as today the attendees register and pick up their TechWave rucksacks. Most of us Sybase Employees, are now camped in Washington DC and everything is ready. If there presenters are not here already they will be soon, as today is the Welco...

We have some outstanding Sponsors, check them out at http://www.sybase.com/techwave?htab=Sponsors TechWave Tip… Make notes, though presentations will be made available, you may get some golden nuggets of information verbally. You may also wish to ask the presenter face to face quest...

The Analytics Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations on IQ, RAP & CEP. Come to the Analytics Technical track to hear about ways to improve your business performance, make faster, more informed decisions, and deliver the results you need with ...

The Application Development Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations covering key features of PowerBuilder as well as a glimpse into the PB crystal ball. My colleges, John Strano and Dave Fish (as well as others), will be at hand to lead you th...

The Enterprise Mobility Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations. You have probably already heard of the Sybase Mobility Platform and maybe more specifically the Sybase UnWired Platform, but during day #2 to day #3, you will get to see and unde...

The Data Management Track Manager has worked hard to create a great line up of technical presentations. The explosion of data is never ending and Sybase will continue to be there for you, to store and interrogate your information in ASE and IQ, as well as replicating it with Rep Server...

We are now only a week away from Sybase TechWave, which will take place in Washington DC on August 9-11. The presenters are putting the final polish to their presentations and are really looking forward to getting face time with all the attendees. I hope that is going to be you! As a p...

Sybase on Tuesday announced the results of a survey gauging consumer opinion on the forthcoming iPhone 4 and iOS 4 software, finding that many of the new features are expected to increase the use of iPhone as a business tool. Over half of respondents who currently own an iPhone said th...

"I think this shows the agility of the new SAP," boasted SAP Chief Financial Officer Werner Brandt, in a conference call yesterday as SAP confirmed that it is to buy Sybase for $5.8 Billion. According to SAP spokesman Saswato Das, the acquisition deal includes over $500 million in Syba...

eLearnIT LLC released an update to its Essential PowerBuilder Series training course that adds support for Sybase PowerBuilder's latest version 12 Classic. The update is immediately available to all current and future users. Yakov Werde, managing partner of eLearnIT, notes, "It is our ...

Sybase has announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 12. This latest generation of Sybase's award-winning rapid application development tool empowers developers with the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective path to create or migrate their business applications on the Micros...

The Ottawa Sybase User Group has been in existence since 1993 and was formerly known as the Ottawa PowerBuilder User Group until its current name change in 2003. OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital of Canada where users can share knowledge, experience...

Sybase today announced it is leveraging the newest version of its industry leading column-based analytics server — Sybase IQ 15.1 —and its global mobile messaging reach, enabling the company to provide deep analytics functionality on the Sybase 365 mobile services platform that will un...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Irfan Khan, CTO of Sybase, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Developing Successful Cloud Strategies by Evaluating Data In...

Sybase and HCL Technologies Ltd. have announced a strategic alliance that empowers customers with real time operational business intelligence. Under this new partnership, HCL will provide business-aligned IT value services around Sybase’s high performance and proven data warehouse and ...

Sybase has announced the newest release of Adaptive Server® Enterprise (ASE) Cluster Edition, its enterprise data management solution that reduces the complexity of deploying a database application across a shared disk server cluster environment. Sybase has worked with its early custom...

"Microsoft is pleased to be working with Sybase to enable custom tools such as PowerBuilder," said Matt Carter, Microsoft's Group Product Manager for Visual Studio, as Sybase yesterday announced the beta availability for PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development ...

Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine heavy database orientation with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI). Revolutionary at its inception for creati...

Love the thought or loathe the thought, Google Latitude is now available for the iPhone in US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and I'm sure that those folks worried about privacy will be in the latter group. Google latitude runs in the iPhone's Safari Browser and can be saved as a B...

Sybase reported historical Q2 records achieved in operating, income, operating margin, net income, EPS, and cash flow. Revenue and EPS exceeded first call consensus. Management raised full-year guidance for revenue, EPS, and cash flow.

Novalys is carrying out its annual worldwide survey on the use of PowerBuilder. Since 2001, the thousands of responses we receive have allowed us to follow the evolution of your PowerBuilder projects. Now you can help us to monitor the new trends in the PowerBuilder community by compl...

Whenever I speak or write (check out other recent articles) about Enterprise Mobility, I always express the necessity of Mobile Device Management, to cover all of the mobile devices that an Enterprise may have, in the very important areas of...

Today was the first day of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit, in the Roosevelt Hote in NYC.

The Ottawa Sybase User Group’s last meeting was held on May 6, 2009. This was an all day event that spanned two sessions - one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning session included a technical presentation on features of the newly released PowerBuilder 11.5.1 and ...

This week, Frost & Sullivan awarded Sybase with its 2009 North American Mobility Award for Mobile Enterprise Platforms. Along with that Info Security Products Guide named Sybase the winner of the 2009 Global Product Excellence in Wireless/Mobile Security Solution Customer Trust Award.

Vantrix has announced that Sybase 365 has extended its contract with Vantrix and will integrate the newest version of Vantrix Message Optimizer and Mediadvance software platform. The agreement broadens a longstanding partnership between the two companies and provides Sybase 365 with ac...

In the last 6 months at least, I have been blogging on many topics but with one central theme, I believe mobility is key to enterprise companies, not only now but for their future. This is especially true in the current economic climate, where cost effectiveness, rapid decisions, strea...

Back in August of 2007, I wrote an article entitled "Dynamically Generating Next-Generation Charts from PowerBuilder DataWindows" that demonstrated one method of dynamically generating Flash charts from within a PowerBuilder application. I was primarily writing that from the perspectiv...

Many people use the New Year as an opportunity to reassess what they're doing and where they are going. The PBDJ editorial team would like to take that opportunity this New Years with regard to the magazine. In particular, we'd like to hear from you, our customers, regarding PBDJ, its ...